Nancy Kricorian

Nancy Jean Kricorian (Armenian: Նենսի Կրիկորյան) (born September 19, 1960) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997)[1] and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003).[2] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013.

Biography

Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,[3] the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.[4] She is of Armenian (father) and French-Canadian (mother) descent.[5][6]

Kricorian graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982 and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1987.[7][3] She is an award-winning[8] and widely published poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.[3][9] She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly, the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project,[10] and is a NAASR member.[11]

Her work was part of the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which she wrote a piece based upon Ecclesiastes, a book of the King James Bible[12]

She was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City[13] from 2003-2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She was the Fall 2015 Writer-in-Residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University,[14] and a fellow of Women Mobilizing Memory project at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference.[15] Kricorian is married to producer and screenwriter James Schamus.[16]

Memberships
  • Women Mobilizing Memory Fellow at The Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University (2013-2017)
  • PEN American Center (2003)
  • Ararat Literary Quarterly Editorial Board (1998-2004)
  • Armenia Tree Project Executive Committee (2001-2016)[10]
  • CODEPINK Women for Peace (2003-2016)[13]
  • Board of the National Association of Armenian Studies and Research (2016)[11]

Honors and Awards
  • Writer in Residence, Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies, New York University, Fall
  • 2015
  • Gold Medal of the Writers Union of Armenia, 2007
  • Anahid Literary Award, The Armenian Center at Columbia University, 1998
  • Ararat Short Story Prize, 1997
  • Daniel Varoujan Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1995
  • Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., January 1991
  • Educational Press Award, Editorial Category, 1991
  • Judith's Room Emerging Talent Prize, 1990
  • River Styx Poetry Prize, 1990
  • Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, l988
  • Tuition Scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory, l988
  • Academy of American Poets Prize, Columbia, l987
  • Residency, Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, Summer l986
  • Finalist, Benjamin Burns Poetry Contest, Columbia, l985
  • Graduate Writing Fellowship, Columbia, l985
  • Claire Woolrich Scholarship, Columbia, l984
  • Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship to the University of Paris, l983-l984
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth, l982
  • Senior Fellowship, Creative Writing, Dartmouth, l98l
  • The Alexander Laing Poetry Prize, Dartmouth, l980 and l98l

Publications

Fiction
  • All the Light There Was, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hardcover) March 2013; She Writes Press (paperback) October 2014
  • Dreams of Bread and Fire, Grove Press (hardcover), May 2003,
  • (paperback) April 2004
  • Dreams of Bread and Fire foreign editions: Aras (Turkey, Nov. 2017);
  • Editions Thaddée (France, forthcoming)
  • “The Tin Cup,” excerpt from Zabelle, Salamander Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999
  • Zabelle, novel, Atlantic Monthly Press (hardcover), January 1998 and Bard/Avon
  • (paperback), March 1999 (later a HarperPerennial title); paperback reissued by Grove, September 2009.
  • Zabelle foreign editions: Machborot (Israel, Nov. 98), Piper (Germany, Aug. 98), Gyldendal (Denmark, June 98), Vassallucci (The Netherlands, April 98), Writers Union of Armenia (Armenia, Dec. 07), Belge (Turkey, Feb. 08)
  • "The Balcony," short story, Ararat, Fall 1997
  • "Armenian Eyes," short story, Ararat, Spring 1991

References
  1. Steinberg, Sybil S. (November 24, 1997). "Zabelle", Publishers Weekly 244 (48): 53.
  2. Zaleski, Jeff (May 26, 2003). "Dreams of Bread and Fire", Publishers Weekly 25
  3. "Nancy Kricorian". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  4. "Kricorian, Nancy 1960- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  5. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15784/proverbs-politics-and-paris_an-interview-with-nanc
  6. http://nancykricorian.net/page/6/
  7. NANCY KRICORIAN on the page of Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference
  8. Two pieces by Nancy Kricorian
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "News | Armenia Tree Project". www.armeniatree.org. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  11. Board Of Directors of National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2012-06-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. Nancy Kricorian on codepink.org
  14. "about | Nancy Kricorian". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  15. "Nancy Kricorian". CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  16. Carroll, Jerry (March 19, 1998). "Two writing powers", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E2.
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